[A]t last there is a sensible Western country. I am so pleased to know that people still fear God and not like modern day Europe, seriously a Swedish school banned the use of gender related pronouns like he, she, him etc. keeping in mind the LGBTs and France says that reference to mother and father must be done away with. Is it not the beginning of an apocalypse?

@Kulgur: Finland might perhaps be used as an example of language not being all that controlling a factor in culture. Finnish has no gender-specific pronouns, yet the country and culture is no utopia of equality between the genders --- about on a par with most of northern Europe, in fact, perhaps slightly behind Sweden in that respect. so this fundy's storming in a teacup anyways.

Yeah, I heard about that. I'm not sure how that's supposed to cause the apocalypse though. I can't imagine one scenario from a meteor striking the Earth to nuclear war to a super deadly pandemic that would be solved by calling someone "sir" or "ma'am".

The thing is, Swedish pronouns have 5 grammatical genders: feminine, masculin neutrum, common and indefinite ("one can do so") - which becomes even more idiotic if you consider that they all brake down when the grammatical number becomes anything more than one (plural). So the entire change here is from "the mother" or "the father" to "parent".

“Wait, wait. I think I can explain this whole thing. Marklar, these Marklars want to change your Marklar. They don’t want this Marklar or any of his Marklars to live here because it’s bad for their Marklar. They use Marklar to try and force Marklars to believe their Marklar. If you let them stay here, they will build Marklars and Marklars. They will take all of your Marklars and replace them with Marklars. These Marklars have no good Marklars to live on Marklars so they must come here to Marklar. Please, let these Marklars stay where they can grow and prosper without any Marklars, Marklars or Marklars.” Kyle, South Park "Starvin' Marvin in Space!"

He's not making things up, the school is real. He's just bending the truth as it just de-emphasizes gender-specific pronouns. It doesn't ban them.

As an earlier poster said it's a social experiment and it's a private school. The parents participating are aware of it. It's not like their public school system is forcing it on to everyone which is how Heleventia makes it sound.

Complaining about this would be like me complaining that there are home-schoolers who are taught creationism. I may not agree but that's my problem.